G2 Crawler News

The crawler has been running pretty well with only minor tweaks from day to day which sometimes show up as blips in the graph. It was also down for a few days due to a failing hard drive.
Yesterday the crawler got into the Foxy network again which uses the same protocol as G2 but is [...]

Anyone who has read through this blog knows that the crawler has tended to crash fairly often. In recent times it was crashing to much to even continue running it. But rather than give up entirely I decided to write my own crawler. Five weeks later and g2paranha has emerged. To go along with the [...]

I was reading the Gnutella2 article on Wikipedia today and I noticed both entries in the External Links section point to my sites (crawler.trillinux.org and g2.trillinux.org). The latter being the new home for the G2 specs after gnutella2.com was allowed to expire. This got me thinking that it looks like I’m the only one trying [...]

I spent last weekend replacing my router with another computer. The transition was a bit bumpy but things are starting to get sorted out. More extended periods of downtime are possible over the next few weeks as I get things completely transitioned and working reliably.